Having been to Patriot games years ago, they were in the top 3 for depraved drunkeness[Giants and Eagles completed the top 3]. However, from reports from friends who still attend, they may have taken over the #1 slot. The Eagles really cracked down and actually have a courtroom in the stadium for quick justice. I am not a prude but NFL games are out of control. I had a fan puke on me last year @ a Packer game. I just got a little splatter but this poor woman behind me got deluged. Lovely!

I was at a game tailgating last year and there is something disconcerting about seeing guys in their fifties with their shirts off and doing beer bongs (with one guy pouring the beers into the funnel from the top of an RV and the other guy sucking them down on the ground).

I did take my 8 year old son (at the time) to a Patriots game where he held up a sign, "Tom Brady Are You My Daddy?" My friend had his son pose with it. So it was two kids who looked different. Truly priceless.

I was in the first row on the 35th yard line. It was a huge hit with the cameramen but (not surprisingly) we did not get on TV with that one.

"CEO-MMP said...What the fuck is funny about "Tom Brady are you my daddy?" signs?"

CEO-MMP, are you really Tom Brady? It is hard to explain a joke, but you had to be there. It was funny.

My wife was not thrilled with the sign, but it got a lot of funny laughs out of the fans at the game and from the opposing team. The Patriots team members were not into it either.

But my best sign (attention Trooper) was when Jeter was out several years ago on the DL for a sliding injury. I was right behind the Yankees dugout with a sign, "Slide Like Jeter!" The Yankees were not digging it, but one of them got Jeter to come out and look at it (he was still on the DL but at the game). Jeter smiled and shook his head at me.

My best prank was at a Eagles game where my friend and I dragged a green stuffed eagle on a string. We went up to every person wearing an Eagles jersey and offered them a Tastykake if they stomped on the eagle. To their credit, most Eagles fans refused to do it. But a few broke down, including a woman who declared "Gawd, I love the Eagles, but I love Taskykakes even more..."

Went to only one Pats game - in the late 70's. Tons of drunks in the old stadium, late fall game, freezing cold. It's a wonder some drunks didn't freeze to the aluminum bench seats after pissing themselves.I'll catch my football games on the flat panel at home. I'm too cheap to have better seats and I can turn off the sound of the announcers.

That supreme douchenozzle Rex Ryan told the fans to smack around the Cowbay fans last week and this one dude in a Cowboys jersey got in a fight and tazed a couple of fans.

Of course the other fans were pissed because he wouldn't stand for the National Anthem and talked on his cellphone during the moment of silence for 911. So when he wanted to go to the bathroom nobody wanted to let him out of the row. A scuffle ensued where this Cowboys fans whipped out a tazer and tazed a bunch of people. He was arrested for assault.

EDH, from your "Gisele thinks sunscreen is poison" link, a doctor is quoted as saying:

"When a public person makes a statement like this, it creates confusion."

Only in the minds of people who are stupid enough to take health tips from a supermodel over what actual doctors have been yelling at us for years. It's the Darwin principle of natural selection at work.

I root for Big Blue for football, but with a family and father from Brooklyn there is no way I am ever rooting for the Yankees. Since the Dodgers and Giants (baseball) abandoned NY, that leaves the Mets.

But my mom still roots for the Yankees. She used to babysit for Yogi Berra and his wife (mom lived in the same town with the Berras when she was a teenager). She said there was never any food to feed the kids when the Berras went out, just cases of Yoo-Hoo.

My brother in law is a cowboys fan and he grew up in NJ. He proposed to my sister at the old Cowboy Stadium. And she even said yes. I love my sister and brother in law, but that Cowboy fandom is rather sad and shameful. They are even bringing their kids up as Cowboys. Sad sad sad.

Now I have another friend of mine you married my sister's best friend. Fortunately he is a Giants fan because his current wife would not have even gone out with him if he wasn't.

Trooper is right about Giants Stadium. The fans are old. But given how expensive it is to see a game there it is not that surprising.

What happens was the tickets were handed down from father to son. So when the sons inherit the tickets they are already mature and not the type to start fights.

The Jets fans are just the douches who couldn't get Giants tickets. The Giants had a huge waiting list that unfortunately is gone now because of the seat licenses they sold with the new staduim. Many, many, many of the old line families had to give up their seats. So the demographics might change in the coming seasons.

Trooper, I expect demographics to change a bit at Giants Stadium, but if you can afford those outrageous seat licenses, you can probably cannot afford getting arrested for a drunken brawl at the game.

That said, Giants Stadium never had a hooligan mentality (you would see guys wearing cowboy jerseys and they might be heckled but that was about it). And for my disgust with everything Cowboys, going to one of their home games in opposing team colors is a lesson in civility. Everyone was nice to you. Too nice. It was disconcerting with niceness. What are they up to?

Jets games always seemed to have a big Long Island thing going. Lot of Nassau County goes to Jets games.

And I agree with you that the rampant use of alcohol in Philadelphia is because the fans there live in Philadelphia or Cherry Hill/Camden. So who can blame them, it totally sucks.

Trooper York said... And rooting for the Mets because the Dodgers and the Giants left town is like wearing panties because you're girlfriend left you.WTF.

9/15/11 3:11 PM

That is the meanest things you have ever said. I might sniff an old girlfriend's panties but I would not wear them.

That said, I love the Mets. There were no Dodgers of Giants for me, just old Willie Mays. And then Seaver. And Carter and the boys. I loved shitty old Shea. The cops used to let you in for a $5 tip after the first inning.

Trooper..you're talking out of your ass again. Both the Knicks and Nets are losers. The Knicks have been winners for a few spans but certainly not of late. A better assessment is Yankee, Giant, Knicks AND RANGER FANS, are generational. Met, Jet, Net, AND DEVIL FANS, are nouveau..many are abandoned fans of the baseball Giants and Dodgers. Be straight w/ us Trooper.

The licensing fees are horseshit. A good friend of mine had Giant tickets going back to Yankee Stadium. He hated the year they had to play @ Yale and so I got some of those games. His family owned a sporting goods store in Boonton, NJ[Marcello's]. Well, the store went out of biz and he couldn't afford the licensing fees. So, last year was the first time since the 1950's they didn't have tix. I got tix for the Packer/Giant game out here but he couldn't make it since it was the day after Xmas. I'm trying to remember who won that game, Troop?

Q: What do you get when you combine all 25 yankees with 25 lesbians?A: Fifty people that dont do dick.

It's career day in elementry school where each student talks about what their dad does. Little Johnny is last, and finally the teacher calls on him to talk about his dad. Johnny comes to the front of the class.

'My daddy is a dancer at a gay bar. He takes off his clothes for other men, and if they pay him enough money, he goes into the alley and performs sex acts on them.'

The teacher is shocked, and she calls for an early recess for the rest of the class. She sits down with Johnny and asks him if this is really true about his dad.

Johnny says; 'No, but I was too embarrassed to say he played for the Yankees.'

Two boys are playing hockey on a pond in Central Park when one is attacked by a rabid Rottweiler. Thinking quickly, the other boy takes his stick, wedges it down the dog's collar and twists, breaking the dog's neck. A reporter who was strolling by sees the incident, and rushes over to interview the boy. "Young Rangers Fan Saves Friend from Vicious Animal," he starts writing in his notebook. "But I'm not a Rangers fan," the little hero replied. "Sorry, since we are in New York, I just assumed you were," said the reporter. "Yankees Fan Rescues Friend From Horrific Attack" he continued writing in his notebook. "I'm not a Yankees fan either," the boy said. "I assumed everyone in New York was either for the Rangers or Yankees. What team do you root for?" the reporter asked. "I'm a Red Sox fan," the child replied. The reporter starts a new sheet in his notebook and writes, "Little Bastard from Boston kills Beloved Family Pet."